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- Kerry_Max_Cook abstract "Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is a former Death Row inmate who claims he was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and moved to Texas with his family in 1972. Kerry Max Cook served over 20 years in a Texas prison on Death Row. Since his release, Cook has become an activist against the death penalty, speaking across the United States and in Europe. He also speaks on the subject of overcoming adversity.Cook has written a book published by HarperCollins entitled Chasing Justice which details his conviction, the widespread prosecutorial abuses which led to it, and the battle to prove his innocence. Chasing Justice was nominated for the Edgar Award, by Mystery Writers of America. He was awarded a Soros Justice Fellowship to write the book. In an advance blurb for the memoir, former FBI Director and Federal Judge William S. Sessions noted, “Kerry Max Cook has written a brutal but compelling account of his 22 years on Texas’s death row for a murder he didn’t commit. The book depicts his struggles against all odds to free himself from an inept justice system that would not let go, despite mounting and eventually overwhelming evidence of his innocence. What is perhaps most amazing is the grace with which he now lives his life as a free man, determined to prevent others from suffering the horrors he endured.”Cook is one of six people whose stories were dramatized in the acclaimed play The Exonerated. The play, written by Eric Jensen and Jessica Blank, details how each individual was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, in addition to their exoneration after varying years of imprisonment. Cook often personally participates in the play. The Exonerated has been made into a film, which first aired on the CourtTV cable television station on January 27, 2005. Kerry Cook is portrayed by Aidan Quinn in the film. At the end the film fades from the actor to Cook himself who talks about his experience, his family and his book writing.Although he is out of prison Cook still lives in a perpetually liminal state. Although he has never admitted guilt (pleading no contest in his fourth trial for Edwards murder), he is still a convicted murderer in the eyes of Texas law, which adversely affects his daily life.Cook and his lawyer Marc McPeak recently embarked on a new legal endeavor to clear his name: a motion to perform DNA tests on physical evidence found at the murder scene. McPeak also filed a motion to recuse Judge Jack Skeen, the former district attorney who prosecuted Cook’s first two trials, as Skeen would be the one to hear the DNA-testing motion. On April 9, 2012, Administrative Judge John Ovard of Dallas granted Cook's request for DNA testing but denied his plea to move the case out of Smith County, where prosecutors who originally tried his case were found by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to have committed "egregious prosecutorial misconduct." Cook's battle to clear his name has been taken up by the online petition site, Change.org.".
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- Kerry_Max_Cook comment "Kerry Max Cook (born 1956) is a former Death Row inmate who claims he was wrongfully convicted for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Linda Jo Edwards in 1977. [1] He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and moved to Texas with his family in 1972. Kerry Max Cook served over 20 years in a Texas prison on Death Row. Since his release, Cook has become an activist against the death penalty, speaking across the United States and in Europe.".
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